My name is Zev Hoover. I take pictures of miniature people. And they've, sort of, exploded online recently.
我的名字是 Zev Hoover。我拍攝迷你人的照片。而它們，可以說，最近在網路上爆紅起來。
I wanted to improve my Photoshop skills, so I started the "little folk" project, which is started as just a way of getting better at Photoshop. After about a year of doing the little folk pictures, they got picked up by some design blogs, and then it just, sort of, exploded.
我想要增進我修圖的能力，所以我開始了「小小人」計畫，它一開始只是用來精進修圖的一種方式。拍攝小小人照片大約一年後，它們被一些設計部落格採用，然後一切就，可以說是，爆紅起來。
Nature is very important in my work and definitely inspires a lot of it. And I think a lot of that comes from living where we do. Aliza, my sister, is very often the character in the pictures.
大自然在我的創作中非常重要，而且絕對啟發很多靈感。我想那很多源自於我們居住的地方。Aliza，我的姊姊，經常是照片中的角色。
Yeah, that's fine. Let me just see what sort of background you're gonna be on.
對，那很好。讓我看一下妳會在怎樣的背景上。
I find my inspiration a lot of the time just in the scenes that I photograph. So, just thinking about how sort of fun it would be, how different that would be to experience, if you were, like,
one-and-a-half or two inches tall. Because the world would be, really, an entirely different place.
我很多時候就只是在我拍攝的景物中找到靈感。所以，想想看這會多有趣、會有多麼不一樣的體驗，如果你只有像是一英吋半或兩英吋高的話。因為世界會變成，真的，一個截然不同的地方。
I certainly put a lot of myself into the characters because they almost always are doing some hobby I'm interested in, or...or somehow related to something I happened to be doing at the time.
我確實投入很多自我在角色中，因為他們幾乎總是在做一些我有興趣的嗜好，或...或是不知怎地和我碰巧在那段時間所做的事有關。
One of my most popular photographs is of me piloting a paper airplane. I think it's a popular picture because people like imagining. I mean, I certainly think about how, in the photographs, I try to evoke a sort of feeling of loneliness because I feel like there's something about that feeling that can be really very beautiful.
其中一張我最受歡迎的照片是我在駕駛一架紙飛機的照片。我想它之所以是張熱門的照片是因為人們喜歡想像。我的意思是，我確實想過如何，在照片中，我試著喚起一種孤獨感，因為我覺得那種感覺的某種特質是可以真的非常美麗的。
I think it's definitely possible that being homeschooled has inspired that because you are alone more often or with fewer people more often, certainly, than if you were to go to public school.
我覺得那一定有可能是在家自學喚起的，因為你更常一個人或更常和較少人在一起，當然，和上公立學校比的話。
Why? I make them for my own pleasure because I love making them. But at the same time, the comments and feedback, certainly, really encourages you to keep going because just knowing that people are passionate about it is incredible, that, you know, someone else would care about my little project. But the Internet has made the world a lot smaller. So anyone who is interested in this type of thing can now go on and just find my work that easily, whereas, without the Internet, it would be almost impossible. I would just be, like, taking pictures somewhere and no one would know about it, really—maybe forever.
為什麼？我拍出它們是為了自己的快樂，因為我喜歡拍攝它們。但同時，評論和回饋，無疑地，真的鼓勵你持續往前，因為光知道人們對這充滿熱忱就很不可思議，因為，你知道，有其他人會關注我的小計畫耶。但網路讓世界變小很多。所以任何對這類型事物有興趣的人現在可以上網並輕易地找到我的創作，反之，若沒有網路，這幾乎是不可能的。我就會，像是，在某處拍拍照片，然後沒有人會知道這件事，真的－－也許永遠沒人知道呢。
